Can We Stop All The Weather Hysteria Please?

Did you get the bread and the milk ahead of time?

Somewhere around Friday afternoon, I started to go into the mild panic about the unknown as the Weekend weather was approaching. Like most folks, my wife and I scrambled into a crowded-with-people/empty-of-food grocery store to get our supplies to hunker down for the Big Pour, though no one could quite agree on it's ETA.

Everywhere you turned on social media and the news, everyone was rattling on about the severity of the rain headed towards us, and it was time to batten down the hatches, etc... Then on Saturday, the weather did its onw thing, like it always does, and we had three seasons in one day.

Knee deep in the hoopla...

Don't get wrong, this isn't about bashing meteorologists. They report it as they see it. But it always seems that the pre-hype causes so much alarm, that in the end, it seems like we're just waiting for it, twiddling our thumbs. Obviously, the weather got going and it was pretty awful. But...

Is it possible that in this day and age of getting clicks, and trying to get the big scoop, we're just exaggerating to look cool? Again, I don't mean just the weatherpersons. People online love to be the first to deliver bad news. Granted, meteorologists could probably tone down the drama a bit, but they also have a job to do.

But it especially goes for us "armchair meteorologists" as well. We have a tendency to get online, and tell everyone the world is about to end. Maybe it's time we all just took a deep breath, gathered a little common sense, and looked out the window before we type. Or maybe listen to Grampa's bum leg a little more often? It's never been wrong about the rain....